The Law of Vibration
Students of history find a continuous chain of reference to the
mysterious influence of one human mind over that of others. In the
earliest records, traditions and legends may be found reference to
the general belief that it was possible for an individual to exert
some weird uncanny power over the minds of other persons, which
would influence the latter for good or evil. And more than this, the
student will find an accompanying belief that certain individuals
are possessed of some mental power which bends even "things" and
circumstances to its might.
Way back in the dim past of man’s history on this planet, this
belief existed, and it has steadily persisted in spite of the
strenuous opposition of material science, even unto the present day.
The years have not affected the belief, and in these dawning days of
the Twentieth Century it has taken on a new strength and vitality,
for its adherents have boldly stepped to the front, and confronting
the doubting materialistic thinkers, have claimed the name of
"Science" for this truth and have insisted that it be taken, once
and for all, from the category of superstition, credulity and
ignorant phantasm.
Were it not pitiable, it would be amusing to glance at the
presumptuous, complacent, smug, self-satisfied position of the
materialistic school of thinkers, who would brush aside as a foolish
delusion that which man of the wisest men of a past ages have
accepted and taught as the truth. The modern "know-it-alls" would
sneer contemptuously at facts that are known to be of actual
occurrence in the daily lives of thousands of intelligent people,
and which the experience of humankind has demonstrated for many
centuries, in all lands and all races.
The trouble lies in the dogmatic assumption of the materialistic
school that what is known as "mind" is merely some peculiar action
of the material brain, some writers even holding that the brain
secretes thought, just as the liver secretes bile. They refuse to
see that the operation of Mind is a manifestation of energy known as
electricity, magnetism, light, heat, gravitation, cohesion, etc.
Because mental energy does not register the vibrations of these
lower forms of energy, they conclude that the higher mental energy
does not exist. Having formulated a theory to suit their
materialistic conceptions, they try to ignore all facts not
consistent with their theory. If they find a fact that will not
squeeze into their narrow theory well, "so much the worse for the
fact," as a writer has said and they promptly ignore or dispute it.
As a matter of truth, the investigator is not compelled to resort
to metaphysical explanations to account for the phenomena of Mental
Influence. The very facts of physical science itself, if rightly
interpreted, will give the clue to the mystery, and will point the
steps of the honest investigator toward the path where he may find
the solution of the perplexing riddle. Although we know that the
real solution lies in the metaphysical realm, still even physical
science will corroborate the facts of its metaphysical sister
science, and instead of contradicting the latter will actually go
far toward furnishing analogous facts and principles basis for a
theory of metaphysical facts.
The student will see at once that so far as physical science is
concerned, it must begin at the phenomenon of "Thought Transference"
for in that phase of the subject may be found an elementary
principle in evidence in many other forms of phenomena. We have
given many instances of "Thought Transference" in the two proceeding
volumes of this series, entitled "Mind Reading" and "Psychomancy,"
respectively, and so we need not repeat the same in this place. The
main fact is that "Thought Transference" does exist, and may be
accounted for upon purely scientific grounds, without calling in the
truths of metaphysical thought. We know that this is a strong
statement, and a positive assertion, but we also know that the same
may be demonstrated. Let us consider this phase of the subject.
In the first place, physical science teaches that underlying all
forms, degrees and apparent differences in matter and energy, there
is to be found a manifestation of some elementary energy, which
manifests in what is known as "Vibrations." Everything in the
material world is in vibration - ever manifesting a high degree of
motion. Without vibration there would be no such thing as a material
universe. From the electronic-corpuscles which science teaches
compose the atom; up through the atom and molecule, until the most
complex forms of matter are manifested, there is the ever-present
Vibration. And through all forms of energy, light, heat,
electricity, magnetism and the rest, Vibration is also ever present.
In fact, physical science itself teaches that not only
Vibration the basic force underlying other forces and the various
forms of matter, but also that the apparent differences between the
various forms of matter, and also between the various forms of
energy, are caused simply and solely by the varying degrees of
Vibration manifested.
Just as the difference between the lowest tone that can be
distinguished by the ear of man, and the highest note that can be
distinguished by the same organ of sense, is merely a difference
between the rate of Vibration - just as is the difference between
the dull red color at one end of the spectrum, and the violet at the
other end, with the intervening colors known as indigo, blue green,
yellow and orange, with all the combinations of shades arising from
them - just as the difference between the greatest degree of cold
known to science, and the greatest degree of heat that can be
conceived of - just as these great differences due solely and wholly
to varying rates of Vibration - so is the difference between and all
forms of matter or force simply a matter of the rate of Vibration.
In short, all material and physical "Things" are simply
manifestations of some "infinite and eternal energy from which all
things proceed," their differences resulting merely from the
different degree of Vibration being manifested in them. Remember,
that this is not "vague philosophy" or "airy metaphysics" or
"spiritualistic vagaries" (to quote from the materialistic writers),
but facts claimed and admitted by the greatest physical scientists
of the age, as a reference to their lectures and textbooks will
prove to anyone.
And, more than this, any intelligent physical scientist will tell
you that Science has every reason to believe that there are great
fields of energy and force, the Vibrations of which are far too high
for even the delicate instruments of science to record, but which
nevertheless exist and manifest effects. It was only the other day
that Science was able to "catch" the "X-Rays" and other forms of
high Radioactivity, and yet these rays and forces had always
existed. And tomorrow Science will perfect instruments capable of
registering still higher forms of energy. And bye-and-bye, some
scientist will perfect an instrument capable of registering and
recording the subtle vibrations of Thought, and perhaps in time
someone will perfect that instrument so that it will not only record
such Thought vibrations and waves, but, like the phonograph, it will
be able to reproduce and send forth similar vibrations so that
others may feel the thoughts, just as they now hear the sounds from
the phonograph. Such a prediction is no more wonderful than would
have been the prediction of the telephone, the phonograph, the
wireless telegraph and sundry other discoveries and inventions a
hundred years ago.
Did you ever think that there are colors that the eye cannot see,
but which delicate instruments clearly register? In fact, the rays
of light which sunburn the face, and which register on the
photographic plate are not visible to the eye. The eye sees the
lower rays, but only instruments adapted for the purpose detect the
higher ones. Your eye cannot see the X-Ray as it passes through the
room, but the plate will catch it, and its light may make a
photograph. The rays of light visible to the eyes are only the lower
ones - the higher ones are far beyond the power of the eye to
record, and beyond even the range of the most delicate instrument
there exist rays and waves of light of such high vibratory rate as
to defy even its power to record.
Did you ever know that there are sounds unheard by human ears
that the microphone will catch and magnify? Scientific imagination
dreams of instruments that will catch the songs of the mite - like
insects, and magnify them until they can be distinguished. There are
waves of electricity that may pass through your body, unperceived by
you, and yet powerful enough to run light electric lights. Listen to
the words of certain eminent scientists.
Prof. Elisha Gary, a celebrated scientist and teacher, has said:
"There is much food for speculation in the thought that there exists
sound waves that no human ear can hear, and color waves of light
that no eye can see. The long, dark, soundless space between 40,000
and 400,000,000,000,000 vibrations per second, and the infinity of
range beyond 700,000,000,000,000 vibrations per second, where light
ceases, in the universe of motion, makes it possible to indulge in
speculation. "
Prof. Williams, the well-known scientific writer, has said:
"There is no gradation between the most rapid undulations or
trembling that produces our sensations of sound, and the slowest of
those which give rise to our sensations of gentlest warmth. There is
a huge gap between them, wide enough to include another world of
motion, all lying between our world of sound and our world of heat
and light; and there is no good reason whatever for supposing that
matter is incapable of such intermediate activity, or that such
activity may not give rise to intermediate sensations, provided that
there are organs for taking up and sensitizing their movements. "
And, so you see that in the scientific theory of Vibrations,
there may be found plenty of room for a scientific explanation of
all that is claimed by adherents of the truth of Mental Influence,
without getting out of the region of physical science, and without
invading the plane of metaphysics. And there are many more proofs
from the same source, which we may touch upon as we proceed.
There is but one Truth, and it manifests on all planes - the
Spiritual; the Mental; and the Physical - and manifestations agree
and coincide. So no Mentalist need fear the test of Physical
Science, for each plane will bear out the facts and phenomena of the
ones below or above it - the Three are but varying phases of One. In
this little work we shall hug close to the plane of Physical
Science, because by so doing we will be able to make the subject
much clearer to many than if we had attempted to express the
teaching in Metaphysical terms. There is no contradiction in the
end. Each bit of Truth must dovetail into every other bit, for all
are parts of the Whole. |